It doesn't look like I can get the Ximian Connector to work with Infineon's Exchange server because they have some stupid 2-stage login procedure. Why must large companies be so slow to do anything, yet somehow so quick to do the difficult stupid things? It's a pity – I was impressed with the simplicity of [...]

The ongoing GNOME website changes produced some unpleasantly unconstructive reactions. This finally got to me when I saw someone insisting that nobody should try to help. Although this was just a lot of bizarrely vicious nonsense from a small group of unusually bitter people, it does give me an excuse to make a couple of [...]

Another week of long hours fighting against ClearCase for the right to read and edit our own source code. Some companies just can’t pay enough for awful products. Many CEOs and CTOs would pay fortunes to be kicked repeatedly in the gonads, and many do.
I’ll be in Nuernberg again for the first half of next [...]

A while I ago I promised myself never to pay for any microsoft product ever again, what with the quality being so abysmal, but I have wanted to take a look at Windows XP for a while. I finally got hold of a copy and achieved blue screen in an as yet unprecedented five seconds [...]

I wrote this little <a href=”http://www.murrayc.com/murray/subjective/management_open_source.shtml”>What Managers Can Learn From Open Source</a> document to make me feel better. That which inspires it most lately is getting fantastically worse.
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A think I finally fixed the latest little gtkmm lifetime bug – an occasional leak. Harold Hopfes really dug deep into GTK+ and gtkmm with startling energy to [...]